Team Approach: Oncologic Sacrectomy

JBJS Rev. 2020 Sep;8(9):e1900226. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.RVW.19.00226.

Abstract

Oncologic sacrectomy is used in the curative treatment of patients with primary sacral malignancies or select locally invasive visceral malignancies. A systematic surgical approach involves preoperative imaging, diagnosis, and multidisciplinary surgical execution. Close collaboration with pediatric, medical, and radiation oncology colleagues is often necessary to individualize treatment plans.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bone Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Bone Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Osteosarcoma / diagnosis
  • Osteosarcoma / surgery*
  • Patient Care Team*
  • Sacrum / diagnostic imaging
  • Sacrum / surgery*